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The public’s perception of the energy industry overall has declined more than 10% in the last six months, according to a recent survey that attributes the drop to the blowout of BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), which has caused the nation’s worst environmental disaster.

Magnum Gas Storage LLC’s nonbinding open season for its Magnum Gas Storage Project, which closed July 31, generated responses from 26 bidders requesting more than four times the capacity offered, the company said Thursday.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Wednesday said it received bids on 30,000 net acres of minerals and generated more than $82 million in proceeds in a lease offering by auction of its open and unleased mineral interests in Arkansas.

Williams unit Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. (Transco) said Wednesday its open season for the proposed Rockies Connector Pipeline generated bids exceeding project capacity from Rockies producers and the Northeast market.

Worldwide upstream investment of 228 oil and gas producers increased 45% to $401 billion in 2006, more than $1 billion per day, but the record capital spending generated a measly 2% increase in reserves volumes, according to a review by researcher John S. Herold Inc. and upstream adviser Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Ltd.

High demand in the northwestern and northeastern United States generated rising Canadian natural gas deliveries, but it was not strong enough to prevent a sharp drop in average prices and total revenues during the first half of the export contract year.

High demand in the northwestern and northeastern United States generated rising Canadian natural gas deliveries, but it was not strong enough to prevent a sharp drop in average prices and total revenues during the first half of the export contract year.

Panhandle Energy said an open season for expansion of the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. generated requests for more than 1 Bcf of firm transportation capacity.

Improved geological understanding and technology have generated an increase of 30% in official estimates of supplies awaiting development in the chief Canadian natural gas producing province of Alberta.